The End of Wuyue Sha

The attempt to resign was, of course, unsuccessful.

Although Liu Duanyue genuinely felt unworthy of the position of city lord, and believed that it was because of her feud with the Moonless Household that so many innocent people had lost their lives.

But now the Sun-Chasing Hall has just been destroyed, and Wuyue Sha has only just been captured. So many wounded people in the city have not been properly taken care of, and the apostles of the Sun-Chasing Hall have not yet been properly dealt with.

So many trivial matters await decisions and so many people await assignments. If Liu Duanyue were to step down now, it would be difficult to find a suitable replacement in a short time.

After several respected elders in the city and the onlookers tried to dissuade her, Liu Duanyue finally gave up the idea.

However, he also had a condition: once Moonless City recovered, he would definitely find himself a successor, then step down and go back to live a leisurely life.

After this ordeal, Liu Duanyue realized how much he had neglected his family and children. If he and his children hadn't been lucky enough to die at the hands of the zombies, he and his three children would have regretted it for the rest of their lives.

After the brief episode of his resignation was finished, everyone's attention returned to Wuyue Sha. His crimes had been made public, and even though Wuyue Sha didn't think he was wrong and kept saying that he had given those people a way out, their lives should belong to him.

But a mistake is a mistake, and Liu Duanyue, in accordance with public opinion, sentenced Wuyue Sha death.

Upon hearing the news, the people below immediately erupted in cheers.

However, the apostles who were also watching were not so happy. Although Wuyue Sha did not directly admit to these sins, his words clearly implied that he acknowledged the accusations made against him by the Liu Household.

Doesn't this mean that they were really deceived, and almost became mindless zombies, with even their souls becoming nourishment for the Soul-Locking Banner?

The apostles couldn't help but shiver, and the Blue-Robed Apostle at the front had an expression that was more unsightly than ever before. The enthusiastic cheers and slaps from the surrounding crowd felt like blows to their faces; in that instant, it seemed as if the whole world was mocking their previous naivety and foolishness.

The one who had been shouting the loudest earlier lowered his head and refused to speak again.

Several White-Robed Apostle quietly approached Yu Heng and asked him, "We heard you know the senior who helped us break the seal. Could you please pass on a message to him for us?"

Yu Heng raised an eyebrow. "What do you want to do?"

Hearing his question, the men blushed and lowered their heads. "We'd like to ask you to help us thank him. If he ever needs our help again, we're happy to serve him!"

"Alright." Yu Heng managed a rare smile. "If I ever have the chance to meet them, I'll definitely tell them these things."

It's just unknown whether he, who has also committed many evil deeds, will have the chance to see his two benefactors again or his little apprentice Dongdong again in his lifetime.

The day's gathering began lively and ended with everyone feeling satisfied.

Especially those Sun-Chasing Hall apostles who were not very cooperative before, suddenly became well-behaved after a gathering. They stopped making noise and stopped trying to exonerate their hall master. This made the jailers much quieter.

Wuyue Sha wasn't imprisoned. He had many tricks up his sleeve, and Liu Duanyue and the others were worried that someone behind him would come to rescue him. So, before that Corruption came looking for him and took his life, Liu Duanyue kept him in her room and kept a close watch on him.

They had originally considered using the "Wuyue Sha" technique to lure out the person behind it all.

But clearly, Wuyue Sha wasn't enough to that person. So much time had passed since he was captured, and the other party hadn't contacted him at all, obviously having already given up on Wuyue Sha.

Time quickly passed to the third day, the day Sang Ying had agreed upon with that Corruption.

The existence of Corruption is so peculiar that it dares not appear during the day, so it can only be seen at night.

As night gradually enveloped Moonless City, a prison cart covered with a black cloth slowly drove out of the city gate.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue sat in front of the prison cart, leading it into the familiar woods.

The prison van did not venture deep into the dense forest, but stopped at the edge of it.

Sang Ying jumped down from the prison cart, looked around, and then looked at Jiang Zhuoxue: "It seems it hasn't arrived yet. We'll have to wait a little longer."

Jiang Zhuoxue had no objection to this; he had come today to see this Corruption.

Corruption is a more troublesome thing than demons. If an ordinary cultivator is not careful, he may be corrupted by Corruption, eventually losing his memory and sanity, being devoured by Corruption, and becoming a complete monster.

Jiang Zhuoxue had lived in the Lower Realm for over ten thousand years, yet she had never personally witnessed such a being.

Some ambitious Evil Cultivator even deliberately create tragedies among mortals, attempting to generate more despair and sorrow, and guide the birth of Corruption.

But this method ultimately failed to work; Corruption, such a special kind of existence, is not so easily created.

Therefore, when Jiang Zhuoxue learned from Sang Ying that a mass of Corruption, or even Corruption with reason, was born from the Soul-Locking Banner, she became somewhat interested in it.

The Corruption could not exist, and once they had dealt with Wuyue Sha and avenged themselves, Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue would then set about dealing with this Corruption.

It is still conscious now and knows to seek revenge on the culprit. But if it loses its mind at any time, many innocent people will suffer.

The thought flashed through Jiang Zhuoxue's mind quickly, but the rustling sound beside her interrupted her thoughts.

Sang Ying looked in the direction of the sound and saw a black shadow, much larger than before, slowly moving out of the dense forest.

Wherever it goes, the surrounding flowers and plants wither to varying degrees, and even the trees it touches turn their trunks charred instantly.

Sang Ying frowned as she watched this scene; she knew that this Corruption was beginning to lose control of its power.

It quickly approached the two, still with that faceless face, and that eerie voice, a mixture of multiple human voices. "You're right on time. Where is that person?"

Sang Ying knew it was talking to her, so she turned around and lifted the black cloth covering the prison cart.

The large black cloth was torn off, and a familiar figure appeared before the Corruption. Wuyue Sha suddenly saw the black mist that had almost taken his life before, and the fear of being swallowed up once again filled his heart.

"Sang Ying, Sang Ying! I was wrong, I'll tell you everything I know. Please don't let it eat me, please take me back to the city, I beg you!" Wuyue Sha thought these people would really want to know the identity of the person behind the scenes. He felt that as long as he stuck to his guns and didn't say anything, they would eventually give in. If he could just make some demands, it wouldn't be so difficult for him to survive.

Who would have thought they would give up so easily, actually willing to throw themselves into the clutches of this monster!

Tears and snot streamed down Wuyue Sha's face as he knelt in the prison cart, repeatedly kowtowing to Sang Ying and the other woman. "I beg you, save me! I don't want to die, I really don't want to die! I can tell you now, it was a woman. She was very beautiful. I couldn't see her cultivation level, and she didn't tell me her identity. It wasn't that I didn't want to tell you before, it's just that she really hid a lot from me. I don't even know who she is myself. Please save me, please..."

The filth swallowed the last half of its sentence Corruption; it didn't want to hear Wuyue Sha continue. It just wanted Wuyue Sha!

The pleas for mercy abruptly ceased, and Sang Ying did not stop the Corruption actions. She hadn't gleaned anything useful from Wuyue Sha's words; clearly, that fool knew nothing and had been thoroughly manipulated.

Having dealt with his enemy, the Corruption devoured Wuyue Sha with lightning speed.

It let out a small burp and prepared to turn around and continue into the dense forest.

But Sang Ying stopped it at that very moment.